DUCKNELi 


ROUND    AND    ABOUT 
BUG  KNELL 


Bucknell  University  Bulletin,  Twenty-second  Series,  No.  2 
September.  1922 


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A  BIT  OF  mSTOP.Y 


UCKNELL  UNIVERSITY- 


-or  the  Uni- 


versity at  Lewisburg,  as  it  was  originally 
called — was  founded  in  1846.  In  Feb- 
ruary of  that  year  the  charter  was  granted 
by  the  Pennsylvania  Legislative  Assembly, 
and  in  the  fall  instruction  began  in  a 
single  basement  room  of  the  old  brick 
Babtist  meeting-house  at  Lewisburg.  Says 
a  student  of  those  pioneer  days:  "In  the 
basement  were  three  rooms.  In  the 
largest  of  these  were  rows  of  plain  red 
desks,  at  which  the  students  were  seated, 
on  one  side  the  girls,  on  the  other  the 
boys.  But  our  seats  faced  different  ways!" 
Here  Stephen  Taylor,  a  graduate  of  Mad- 
ison (now  Colgate)  University,  guided  as 
principal  the  early  years.  Thus  quaintly 
and  humbly  began  the  institution  which  to-day  possesses  a  campus  of  near- 
ly 200  acres,  with  twenty-two  buildings,  nearly  a  thousand  students,  and 
thousands  of  alumni. 

The  early  years  brought  many  a  struggle  and  hardship  to  the  infant 
institution,  but  it  weathered  all  storms  and  made  steady  progress.  In  1847 
the  Academy,  first  building  on  the  present  campus,  was  ready  for  occupancy. 
To  quote  again,  "we  students  took  our  desks  on  our  heads  and  marched  out 
to  the  hill."  The  first  class,  numbering  seven  members,  was  graduated  in 
1851.  In  the  same  year  Howard  Malcolm,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  was  elected  pres- 
ident of  the  University,  serving  until  1857,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Jus- 
tin Loomis,  Ph.D.,  LL.D. 

In  1862  the  institution  closed  its  doors  for  the  only  time  in  its  history. 
In  July  of  that  year  the  Confederate  invasion  threatened  Pennsylvania,  and 
professors  and  students  marched  off  en  masse  in  an  "emergency  company" 
which  played  its  part  in  defending  the  old  Keystone  State  against  the  South- 
ern advance;  they  returned  to  their  class-rooms  after  Lee's  retreat. 


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The  Meadows,  University  Avenue 

In  the  years  following  the  Civil  War  the  University  made  slow  but 
steady  growth.  In  1879  President  Loomis  ended  his  long  term  of  office,  re- 
tiring in  favor  of  David  Jayne  Hill,  LL.D.,  the  first  native  son  of  the  Uni- 
versity to  become  its  president.  Dr.  Hill's  administration  of  ten  years 
greatly  enhanced  the  scholastic  prestige  of  the  University.  In  1886  the 
name  of  the  institution  was  changed  to  Bucknell,  in  honor  of  William  Buck- 
nell,  the  Philadelphia  philanthropist,  who  had  served  for  many  years  as 
chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


In  1889  President  John  Howard  Harris,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  came  into  office. 
His  30-year  term  saw  a  great  material  grov/th,  a  large  increase  in  regis- 
tration and  equipment.  The  college  attendance  increased  from  71  in  1890 
to  715  in   1916.     Buildings  were  erected,  the  faculty  increased,  and  the 

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courses  of  study  expanded  in  proportion  to  the  numerical  growth.  Buck- 
nell  Hall,  the  Chemical  Laboratory,  the  Gymnasium,  the  New  Women's 
Building,  East  College,  the  Library,  and  several  other  buildings  were 
erected  during  his  administration. 

In  1919  Emory  W.  Hunt,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  accepted  the  presidency.  Dur- 
ing his  three  years  of  service  his  Christian  statesmanship  and  lofty  vision 
have  made  a  deep  impression  on  the  institution.  The  curriculum  has  been 
thoroughly  revised,  the  campus  extension  and  the  Groff  Estate  purchased, 
the  Chemical  Laboratory  enlarged,  the  Engineering  Building  erected.  East 
and  West  Wings  of  Main  College  thoroughly  renovated,  the  Women's  Col- 
lege buildings  modernized.  The  total  registration  has  increased  to  998,  and 
would  be  larger  but  for  the  necessary  restrictions  imposed  by  lack  of  hous- 
ing space  and  equipment. 


The  Old  Athletic  Field  horn  the  Hill 


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MAIN  ENTRANCE 


Wide  open  and  unguarded  stand  our  gates  -  - 
Portals  that  lead  to  an  enchanted  land. 

THE  1905  Memorial  Gateway,  standing  in  simple  dignity  at  the  main 
entrance  to  the  campus,  welcomes  the  new  student  or  the  old  "grad" 
as  he  approaches  the  University.  Whether  he  be  new  student  or  old 
"grad,"  the  visitor's  heart  beats  quicker  at  the  sight  of  the  oak-clad  campus. 
Not  the  least  of  Bucknell's  treasures  are  the  noble  century-old  trees  which 
shade  its  grounds.  To  the  right  of  the  winding  path  which  leads  to  the 
"Hill"  is  "Senior  Patch,"  where,  according  to  Bucknell  tradition,  the  Senior 
Sings  are  held  in  balmy  May.  To  the  left,  one  catches  a  glimpse  of  the 
old  Athletic  Field. 

As  one  ascends  the  hill,  the  old  Athletic  Field  stretches  away  to  the 
left  toward  Tustin  Gymnasium,  the  men's  "gym."  Senior  Path — which 
underclassmen  tread  at  their  peril — extends  diagonally  to  the  summit; 
above,  the  long  facade  of  Main  College,  and  to  its  right.  West  College, 
surmounted  by  the  1907  Memorial  Clock,  become  visible.  These  two 
buildings  enclose  the  north  and  west  sides  of  the  Quadrangle. 

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MAIN   COLLEGE 

MAIN  College,  designed  by  Thomas  U.  Walter,  architect  of  the  dome 
and  wings  of  the  National  Capitol  at  Washington,  stands  in  austere 
beauty  on  the  brow  of  College  Hill,  overlooking  the  lower  campus 
and  the  Susquehanna  River. 

"Old  Main,"  erected  in  1859,  plays  to-day,  as  it  always  has,  a  large 
part  in  Bucknell  life.    The  first  floor  is  given  over  altogether  to  adminis- 
trative offices  and  class-rooms.     Here   are  located  the   President's  Office, 
the  Dean's  Office,  the  Registrar's  Office,  the  Recorder's  Office,  the  Office 


Old  Main  from  the  Quadrangle 

of  the  Superintendent  of  Grounds  and  Buildings,  the  Alumni  Office,  and 
the  Office  of  the  Athletic  Association.  Here  too  are  the  old  familiar  class- 
rooms: the  Latin  Room,  the  Mathematics  Room,  the  Greek  Room,  the  Lit- 
erature Room,  the  History  Room, — used  now  for  classes  of  many  kinds. 

The  second  floor  of  the  central  portion  contains  botanical  and  geolog- 
ical laboratories  and  museums;  the  third  floor.  Commencement  Hall. 

Rooms  for  men  students  occupy  the  upper  floors  of  East  and  West 
Wings. 

Soon  and  late.  Old  Main  plays  a  large  part  in  the  life  of  every  student. 
Here  he  first  enrols  on  his  arrival;  here  he  attends  classes;  here — he  pays 
bills;  here  at  length,  garbed  in  academic  black,  he  mounts  to  historic 
Commencement  Hall  to  receive  his  degree. 

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Front  Campus 


Campus  Paths 


Old  Main  and  West 


View  From  Old  Main 


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East  College 

THE  MEN'S  RESIDENCE  HALLS 

BY  no  means  all  of  college  life  is  included  in  the  curriculum.  If  educa- 
tion, as  has  been  said,  consists  in  establishing  contacts  with  life,  the 
college  residence  hall  plays  a  role  almost  as  important  as  that  of  the 
class-room.  Here  the  student  rubs  up  against  his  fellows  from  far  and  near, 
broadening  his  vision  and  enlarging  his  sympathies. 


View  From 


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West  College 

Bucknell  seeks  to  foster  such  contact  by  housing  its  students  on  the 
campus.  Except  for  those  upperclassmen  who  room  in  fraternity  houses, 
nearly  all  men  students  live  in  the  dormitories. 

The  oldest  of  the  residence  halls  are  East  and  West  Wings  of  Main 
College,  which  together  accommodate  more  than  a  hundred  men.  Both 
wings  have  been  thoroughly  modernized  within  the  past  three  years,  and 


the  Flagstaff 


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with  baths  established  on  each  floor,  are  fully  as  desirable  as  the  more 
modern  dormitories. 

West  College,  erected  in  1900,  is  a  comfortable  modern  building,  with 
97  rooms.  Besides  these,  it  contains  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  office  and  assembly 
room.    It  is  surmounted  by  the  1907  Memorial  Clock. 

East  College  has  on  its  four  residence  floors  112  students'  rooms. 
The  ground  floor  is  occupied  by  electrical  engineering  and  physics  labora- 
tories, the  top  floor  by  large  drawing-rooms.  From  the  main  drawing-room 
a  stairway  leads  to  the  1909  Memorial  Tower,  which  offers  a  magnificent 
view  of  the  campus,  the  river,  and  the  surrounding  country. 


Looking  Across  the  Quadrangle 


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THE   OBSERVATORY 

FROM  the  very  foundation  of  the  University,  Bucknell  has  offered  work 
in  Astronomy.  A  member  of  the  first  class  has  written  in  his  rem- 
iniscences of  the  early  days:  "After  a  time  we  were  cheered  by  the  arrival 
of  some  philosophical  apparatus.  Doctor  Taylor  used  to  take  the  telescope 
on  his  shoulders  and  go  up  to  the  crest,  where  the  main  edifice  now  stands, 
to  show  us  the  wonders  of  the  starry  heavens." 

Much  later  the  Observatory  was  erected  to  furnish  practical  work  in 
Astronomy.  It  stands  picturesquely  at  the  southwestern  angle  of  the  quad- 
rangle, between  the  Library  and  East  College.  It  contains  a  ten-inch  Clark 
Equatorial  Telescope  and  the  other  usual  equipment  for  astronomical  ob- 
servations, with  a  collection  of  standard  works.  A  class-room  is  attached 
to  the  Observatory  proper.  Elementary  and  advanced  courses  in  Astron- 
omy offer  those  who  wish  it  an  opportunity  to  become  actively  acquainted 
with  "the  wonders  of  the  starry  heavens." 


The  Observatory  from  Old  Main 


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The  Library,  Main  Reading  Room 


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THE  LIBRARY 


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O  be  at  home  in  all  lands  and  all  ages;  to  count  Nature  a  familiar 
acquaintance,  and  Art  an  intimate  friend;  to  gain  a  standard  for 
the  appreciation   of  other  men's  work   and  the  criticism  of  your 
own;  to  carry  the  keys  of  the  world's  library  in  your  pocket  and  feel  its 

resources  behind  you  in  whatever  task  you  undertake "  Such, 

in  part,  is  the  statement  President  Hyde  of  Bowdoin  has  made  of  the  re- 
sults of  a  liberal  education.     The  realization  of  such  an  ideal  involves  a 


wide   acquaintance   with   the    books   in    which    are    deposited   the   cultural 
riches  accumulated  during  the  centuries  of  human  history. 

At  Bucknell,  the  library,  which  lies  directly  across  the  Quadrangle  from 
Main  College,  is  so  arranged  as  to  permit  an  intimate  contact  with  books. 
The  greater  number  of  the  40,000  volumes  which  the  library  contains  are 
immediately  accessible  to  the  student.  The  open  shelves  of  the  General 
Reading  Room,  the  Periodical  Room,  and  the  departmental  rooms,  allow  the 
book-lover  to  browse  at  will.  Only  such  restrictions  are  enforced  as  are 
necessary  to  safeguard  the  collections. 


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Academy  and  Hill  from  the  Stadium  Site 


THE    ACADEMY 


THE  Academy,  as  it  is  still  called  in  memory  of  the  days  when  it  was 
given  over  to  the  boys'  preparatory  department  of  the  University,  has 
recently  been  remodeled  to  satisfy  the  expanding  needs  of  the  college. 

Of  the  Academy  building  proper,  the  first  floor  contains  Modern  Lan- 
guage class-rooms  and  a  dining-hall  used  for  the  Commencement  Alumni 
dinner;  the  second  floor  is  a  residence;  the  third  floor  contains  a  large 
biology  lecture  room  and  laboratories  for  use  in  zoology,  embryology,  his- 
tology, and  entomology,  and  a  dissecting  room  for  human  anatomy.  The 
laboratories  have  the  usual  equipment  of  desks,  microscopes,  and  projec- 
tion apparatus.  The  very  valuable  collection  of  microscopic  slides  is  also 
housed  here. 

The  first  floor  of  East  Hall  contains  a  bacteriological  laboratory.  The 
second  and  third  floors  are  occupied  by  the  recitation  rooms  and  offices  of 
the  Department  of  English. 


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THE  ENGINEERING  BUILDING 


THE  rapid  increase  in  the  registration  at  Bucknell  within  the  past  few 
years  so  cramped  the  available  facilities  that  in  1920  the  Board  of 
Trustees  with  large  vision  purchased  the  Miller  Farm,  a  tract  of  158 
acres  of  beautiful  rolling  land  just  south  of  the  campus.  At  the  same  time 
the  Board  caused  to  be  drawn  up  a  building  program  covering  a  long  period 
of  years. 

The  first  building  to  be  erected  on  the  campus  extension  is  the  Engi- 
neering Building,  one  wing  of  which  has  been  assigned  to  the  Departments 
of  Mechanical  and  Civil  Engineering  and  is  already  in  use  for  work  in 
these  branches. 

The  new  building  has  been  erected  in  accord  with  the  most  modern 
ideas  of  construction  and  with  regard  to  the  particular  needs  of  the  depart- 
ments for  which  it  was  designed. 

The  ground  floor  is  equipped  for  work  in  combustion  engines,  steam, 
hydraulics,  and  cement  testing.  The  first  floor  is  occupied  by  the  pattern 
shop,  the  tool-room,  the  machine  shop,  and  a  recitation  room.  The  second 
floor  has  two  large  drawing-rooms  for  the  senior  work,  two  recitation-rooms 
accommodating  fifty  students  each,  one  large  lecture  room  equipped  for 
demonstrations,  and  the  office  of  the  Mechanical  Engineering  Department. 

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THE  CHEMICAL  LABORATORY 

/^  HEMISTRY  is  the  Aladdin's  lamp  of  modern  civilization.  No  science 
^-^  has  had  a  more  remarkable  development,  nor  has  now  more  potent 
promise  for  future  expansion. 

To  meet  the  greatly  multipled  courses  and  the  heavy  registration  in 
this  basic  science,  the  chemical  laboratory  at  Bucknell  was  enlarged  in  the 


summer  of  1921  by  an  addition  one-third  the  size  of  the  original  building. 
As  it  now  stands,  the  laboratory  is  one  of  the  handsomest  buildings  on  the 
campus,  and  is  adequate  in  space  and  equipment  for  present  needs. 

The  ground  floor  contains  the  metallurgical  laboratory,  the  laboratory 
for  inorganic  preparations,  the  chemical  engineering  organic  laboratory 
with  combustion  room  at  the  side,  a  dark  room,  and  store-rooms. 

The  first  floor  has  the  large  chemistry  lecture  room  with  seating  space 
for  one  hundred  and  ten  students,  two  laboratories  for  general  chemistry 
each  accommodating  fifty  students,  and  small  class-rooms  for  quiz  sections. 

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The  second  floor  is  equipped  with  the  laboratories  for  pre-medical 
organic  chemistry,  for  physical  chemistry,  for  chemistry  of  foods,  two  labor- 
atories for  quantitative  chemistry  accommodating  fifty-two  students,  one 
large  and  three  small  lecture  rooms,  and  the  library. 

The  third  floor  contains  store-rooms  and  space  available  for  additional 
laboratory  rooms. 

In  addition  to  the  general  laboratories,  small  private  laboratories  are 
installed  in  the  three  offices  provided  for  the  instructors. 


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BUCKNELL  HALL 


BUCKNELL  Hall,  erected  in  1886,  has  served  since  that  time  as  the 
college  chapel.  Of  late  years  its  seating  capacity  has  been  inadequate 
to  accommodate  the  entire  student-body,  so  that  "upper-class  chapel" 
and  "freshman  chapel"  have  been  instituted,  each  meeting  two  days  a  week. 

Bucknell  Hall  is  used  also  as  an  auditorium  for  recitals  of  the  School 
of  Music,  student  plays,  meeting  of  the  Bucknell  Lyceum,  and  lectures. 

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New  Building.  Women's  College 


THE  WOMEN'S  COLLEGE 


FROM  its  very  beginnning  the  University  has  recognized  the  modern  need 
for  the  higher  education  of  women.  In  that  big  basement  room  of  the 
old  Baptist  Meeting-house  girls  and  boys  sat  side  by  side.  When  the 
buildings  on  the  present  campus  were  erected,  one  section  was  set  aside 
for  the  "University  Female  Institute"  as  it  was  quaintly  called — a  women's 
department  carrying  on  work  of  secondary  and  early  college  grade.  This 
was  the  germ  of  the  present  Women's  College. 

In  the  early  eighties  women  were  admitted  to  the  college  proper,  the 
first  woman  graduate  being  a  member  of  the  class  of  1885. 

To-day,  the  women  work  side  by  side  with  the  men  in  laboratory  and 
class-room.  They  have,  however,  their  separate  student  government,  con- 
ducted by  a  Student  Executive  Board;  a  separate  Athletic  Board,  which, 
with  the  cooperation  of  the  Director  of  Physical  Education  for  women, 
exercises  supervision  over  the  women's  sports-hockey,  basketball,  tennis, 

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and  archery;  the  Y.W.C.A. ;  the  women's  dramatic  organization;  and  other 
organizations  serving  their  peculiar  interests. 

The  college  women,  although  they  share  with  the  men  the  general 
social  life  of  the  University,  have  also  a  number  of  separate  traditions 
which  make  their  life  distinctive.  Every  freshman  finds  a  sophomore  Big 
Sister  awaiting  her  on  her  arrival;  the  Hallowe'en  Masquerade  is  always 
an  exciting  event;  the  May  Day  Festival  attracts  spectators  from  near  and 
far;  Y.  W.  C.  A.  parties,  class  events,  sorority  functions  and  the  like  are 
happenings  of  major  interest  on  the  Women's  College  calendar. 


Wolfe  House  in  Winter 


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The  President  and  His  Aides 
THE  PRESIDENT 

AT  a  recent  meeting  of  Baptists  from  all  over  the  United  States,  a 
small  group  of  representative  men  was  discussing  the  problem — what 
man  in  the  denomination  is  most  trusted  and  most  highly  esteemed 
by  the  Baptists  of  America?  To  settle  the  problem,  they  agreed  that  each 
one  of  the  group  should  write  on  a  slip  of  paper  the  name  of  the  one  whom 
he  believed  to  occupy  this  position.  When  the  slips  were  read  it  was 
found  that  on  every  slip  was  the  name — Emory  W.  Hunt. 

That  this  is  a  true  estimate  is  proved  by  the  fact  that  he  has  held 
nearly  every  office  of  trust  and  responsibility  in  the  gift  of  the  Northern 
Baptist  Convention.  At  the  present  time  he  is  chairman  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Board  of  Promotion.  Whenever  a  conference  is  held 
on  problems  which  demand  wisdom  and  Christian  statesmanship,  he  is  one 
of  the  first  to  be  summoned  into  council. 

President  Hunt  came  to  Bucknell  in  1919.  The  time  since  then  has 
been  sufficient  for  him  to  infuse  with  his  vision  and  sympathy  every  depart- 
ment of  the  University.  He  has  endeared  himself  to  alumni  and  students 
by  his  justice  and  kindliness.  On  every  count  of  the  measure  of  manhood 
which  he  himself  proposes  --  height  of  ideals,  depth  of  convictions,  and 
breadth  of  sympathies  --  he  is  a  man. 

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THE  FACULTY 

ABUCKNELL  alumnus  who  occupies  a  professorship  in  one  of  our 
great  national  universities  said  recently:  "I  have  never  found  better 
teachers  than  those  I  knew  at  Bucknell."  If  this  were  an  isolated  opinion 
it  would  not  count  for  much.  But  it  is  typical  of  opinions  frequently  ex- 
pressed by  Bucknell  graduates  who  have  enjoyed  graduate  work  in  the 
United  States  and  abroad;  and  as  such  it  is  deserving  of  consideration. 

The  basis  for  such  an  opinion  is  found  in  the  fact  that  the  members 
of  the  Bucknell  faculty  aim  less  at  teaching  subjects  than  at  teaching  men 
and  women.  This  attitude  helps  to  build  up  the  close  personal  relation- 
ship which  in  many  cases  exists  between  teacher  and  student,  a  relationship 
which,  extending  beyond  the  college  years,  frequently  crystallizes  into  a 
life-long  friendship.  Many  an  old  "grad"  comes  back  to  the  college  eager 
not  merely  to  revisit  his  old  room,  his  old  fraternity  and  the  old  campus, 
but  perhaps  even  more  to  renew  comradeship  with  his  old  teachers,  the 
value  of  whose  interest  in  him  the  passing  years  have  taught  him  properly 
to  appreciate. 


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Some  of  Them 


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ATHLETIC   LIFE 

ry^HE  sound  body  which  according  to  the  Latin  proverb  must  house  a 
•^     sound  mind  is  cultivated  at  Bucknell  both  by  required  work  in  phy- 
sical education  and  by  voluntary  participation  in  inter-collegiate  and  intra- 
mural sports. 

In  the  inter-collegiate  athletic  world,  Bucknell  ranks  high.  The  foot- 
ball team  this  year  won  seven  out  of  eleven  games  played  on  what  was 
regarded  as  one  of  the  heaviest  schedules  in  the  country.  Lehigh,  Rutgers, 
Dickinson,  Muhlenberg,  Susquehanna,  Alfred,  and  Mansfield  were  defeated; 
Pittsburgh  won  7-0;  Navy  14-7;  Lafayette  28-7;  Georgetown  19-7  in  hard- 
fought  struggles. 

The  track  team  won  for  the  second  season  the  trophy  cup  of  the  Cen- 
tral Pennsylvania  Conference  from  a  field  of  eight  colleges. 

The  relay  team  placed  first  in  its  class  at  the  Penn  Relays,  and  third 
in  the  Middle  Atlantic  States  Championship  Relay. 

The  baseball  team  won  ten  and  lost  five  games,  defeating  Penn  State, 
Pittsburgh,  and  Dickinson  twice,  in  the  course  of  the  season. 

The  tennis  team  won  four  matches,  from  Penn  State,  Dickinson,  Sus- 
quehanna, and  Gettysburg;  tied  three,  with  Penn  State,  Pittsburgh,  and 
Juniata,  and  did  not  meet  with  a  single  defeat. 

The  basketball  team,  playing  for  the  most  part  on  foreign  floors,  lost 
ten  out  of  eighteen  games. 

Intra-mural  sports  include  class  football,  class  and  inter-fraternity  bas- 
ketball, inter-fraternity  and  individual  singles  and  doubles  in  tennis,  inter- 
class  athletic  meets,  inter-class,  inter-fraternity,  and  inter-club  baseball. 
The  inter-fraternity  basketball  tournament  furnishes  the  chief  winter  sport. 
Twelve  teams,  representing  fraternity  men,  non-fraternity  men,  and  the 
faculty,  compete  in  this  sport.   With  the  practice  contests  within  the  various 

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Central  Conference  Champion 


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Around  the  Year  at  Bucknell 

Autumn 

A  Motorized  Hike-Lafayette  Game-Field  Trip 


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groups,  the  series  affords  winter  sport  for  a  very  large  proportion  of  the 
men  of  the  college. 

Buffalo  Creek  and  the  Susquehanna  River  are  utilized  for  canoeing 
and  swimming  in  summer  and  for  skating  in  winter;  of  late  skiing  and 
tobogganing  on  the  College  Hill  have  grown  to  be  favorite  winter  sports. 

The  fall  and  spring  Saturdays  witness  many  hikes  to  historic  Blue 
Hill  (Shikellimy)  at  the  junction  of  the  North  and  West  Branches  of  the 
Susquehanna,  up  Buffalo  Creek,  to  the  old  Indian  settlement  at  Chillis- 
quaque,  into  the  Winfield  Hills,  or  "motorized  hikes"  to  Old  Gap,  Joyce 
Kilmer  Park,  Penn's  Cave,  Eaglesmere,  Essick  Heights,  "The  Old  Trees" 
at  Troxelville,  Kitchen's  Creek  Preserve  and  other  spots  of  natural  beauty. 


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RELIGIOUS  LIFE  AT  BUCKNELL 

T3  UCKNELL  is  fundamentally  and  firmly  a  liberal  Christian  institution. 
-*^  Although  traditionally  Baptist,  it  erects  no  denominational  bars  for 
either  instructor  or  student.  The  charter  specifies  "that  no  religious 
sentiments  are  to  be  accounted  as  a  disability  to  hinder  the  election 
of  an  individual  to  any  office  among  the  teachers  of  the  institution,  or  to 
debar  persons  from  admittance  as  students,  in  any  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity." Thus  broad-minded  was  Stephen  Taylor,  first  administrator  of 
the  University,  who  drafted  the  charter.  And  the  tradition  still  is  maintained. 

But  though  Bucknell  makes  no  attempt  to  force  faculty  or  students 
into  any  strait-jacket  of  dogma,  it  makes  every  effort  to  create  a  distinct 
Christian  atmosphere  about  the  campus,  and  to  train  its  students  not  merely 
to  make  a  living,  but  to  make  a  life. 

The  chapel  services  of  the  college,  which  all  students  attend  unless 
specially  excused,  conduce  to  this  end.  At  these  services  President  Hunt 
gives  those  characteristic  brief  discussions  of  life  problems  and  ideals 
which  only  he  can  give.  Frequently  the  chapel  is  addressed  by  prominent 
men  from  the  outside  world.  Among  those  who  have  spoken  recently  are 
Sherwood  Eddy,  President  Horr,  R.  P.  Hobson,  William  Jennings  Bryan, 
Raymond  West,  Allyn  K.  Foster,  Hamlin  Garland,  and  Dr.  Rosalie  Morton. 

The  religious  life  of  the  men  students  finds  expression  in  the  Y.M.C. 
A.  Besides  its  devotional  services,  the  "Y"  organizes  courses  in  Bible 
study  and  the  study  of  modern  industrial  problems,  maintains  a  student 
employment  bureau,  arranges  an  annual  lecture  course,  brings  in  special 
speakers  on  student  problems,  and  serves  in  other  ways. 

The  Y.W.C.A.  holds  devotional  services,  maintains  study  groups,  does 
personal  work  among  women  and  carries  on  welfare  work  in  the  community. 

The  seven  churches  of  the  town — Baptist,  Presbyterian,  Methodist, 
Lutheran,    Reformed,    Evangelical,    and    Christian, — welcome    students   to 

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their  services  and  to  their  social  life.  They  hold  student  receptions  at  the 
opening  of  college  and  various  merry-makings  during  the  year  in  which 
students  and  towns-people  join.  Several  churches  have  established  a  stu- 
dent fellowship  by  which  students  without  giving  up  membership  in  their 
home  churches  may  affiliate  with  the  Lewisburg  church  during  their  resi- 
dence here. 

The  student-body  is  composed  of  church  members.  The  last  religious 
census  showed  90%  of  the  students  affiliated  with  Christian  churches.  The 
percentages  ran  as  follows:  Baptist  21;  Methodist  18;  Presbyterian  16; 
Lutheran  14;  Reformed  5;  Catholic  5;  Evangelical  4;  Episcopalian  3; 
United  Brethren  2;  Congregational  1;  Christian  1. 


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Around  the  Year  at  Bucknell 
Winter 
Clearing  the  Paths-Freshman  Chapel-Buffalo  Creek 


STUDENT  ACTIVITIES 

THIS  is  not  the  place  to  treat  of  the  courses  of  study.   A  full  description 
of  them  may  be  found  in  the  Annual  College  Catalog. 

The  extra-curricular  intellectual  and  social  activities  are  many. 

For  those  of  literary  and  journalistic  inclinations,  the  Bucknellian — • 
the  college  newspaper,  the  Mirror — the  literary  publication,  and  L'Agenda 
— the  college  year  book,  offer  a  field  for  the  exercise  of  their  genius. 

The  Debate  Board  has  charge  of  intra-mural  and  inter-collegiate  de- 
bates. Every  year  one  triangular  and  several  dual  inter-collegiate  debates 
are  held.    Tau  Kappa  Alpha  is  the  honorary  debating  society. 

Cap  and  Dagger  among  the  men,  Frill  and  Frown  at  the  Women's  Col- 
lege, and  Theta  Alpha  Phi  Dramatic  Fraternity  composed  of  men  and 
women,  foster  dramatics  by  individual  and  joint  production  of  several  plays 
annually. 

The  Mathematics  Club,  the  Medical  Society,  the  Chemical  Engineering 
Society,  the  Bucknell  University  Branch  of  the  American  Institute  of  Elec- 
trical Engineers,  the  Mechanical  Engineering  Society,  the  Civil  Engineer- 
ing Society,  the  Ministerial  Association,  the  Student  Volunteer  Association, 
Mu  Phi  Epsilon  Musical  Fraternity  hold  frequent  meetings  devoted  to  the 
interests  of  these  groups. 

The  Men's  and  the  Women's  Glee  Clubs  give  home  and  out-of-town  con- 
certs. This  year  the  Men's  Glee  Club  appeared  in  thirty-five  cities  of 
Pennsylvania  and  neighboring  states,  singing  to  35,000  people.  It  had  ex- 
cellent press  notices  in  every  tov/n,  and  was  highly  praised.  The  Operatic 
Society  and  the  Oratorio  Society  work  along  special  lines. 

Ensemble  work  in  instrumental  music  is  fostered  by  the  University 
Orchestra,  the  University  Band  of  fifty  pieces,  and  numerous  other  organ- 
izations. 

A  number  of  sectional  clubs  promote  good-fellowship  among  the  stu- 
dents from  the  various  geographical  districts. 


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Around  the  Year  at  Bucknell 

Spring 

Planting  the  Senior  Tree-A  Favorite  Nook--A  Homer 


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THE  social  life  of  the  college  centers  largely  around  the  fraternities 
and  sororities,  although  several  general  college  functions  and  a 
number  of  class  and  departmental  club  social  affairs  have  their  place  on 
the  college  calendar. 

At  Bucknell  there  are  eleven  national  and  local  men's  social  frater- 
nities: Phi  Kappa  Psi;  Sigma  Chi;  Phi  Gamma  Delta;  Sigma  Alpha 
Epsilon;  Kappa  Sigma;  Delta  Sigma;  Kappa  Delta  Rho;  Lambda  Chi  Alpha; 
Beta  Kappa  Psi;  Phi  Theta  Sigma;  Alpha  Chi  Mu;  and  six  women's  soror- 
ities; Pi  Beta  Phi;  Delta  Delta  Delta;  Kappa  Delta;  Mu  Phi  Epsilon;  Eta 
Sigma;  Alpha  Chi  Omega. 

Membership  in  these  fraternities  is  extended  by  invitation.  Students 
may  be  pledged  during  their  freshman  year,  but  are  initiated  only  after 
completing  a  full  year's  work.  The  men's  fraternities  are  for  the  most 
part  housed  in  their  own  chapter-houses  near  the  campus. 

The  government  of  the  men  is  vested  in  the  Senior  Council,  which 
is  composed  of  members  of  all  fraternities  and  non-fraternity  men,  and 
which  operates  under  a  Constitution  granted  by  the  Faculty.  Since  the 
institution  of  Senior  Council  as  the  official  student  representative  body 
many  abuses  of  student  life  of  former  days,  such  as  unregulated  hazing, 
have  entirely  disappeared. 


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Around  the  Year  at  Bucknell 

Commencement 

The  Alumni  Game-Twilight  Concert-"The  Grave  old  Seniors' 


THE  NEW   STADIUM 

THE  Athletic  Council  with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
University  authorized  last  year  the  erection  of  a  new  stadium,  to 
take  the  place  of  the  present  athletic  field,  which  is  no  longer  adequate  to 
the  needs  of  the  institution  for  physical  training  and  inter-collegiate  athletics. 

The  work  of  grading  the  new  site  was  begun  last  spring,  and  has  pro- 
gressed to  the  point  where  the  use  of  the  field  proper  for  the  big  football 
games  next  fall  seems  assured.  The  stadium  structure  will  then  be  com- 
pleted as  rapidly  as  circumstances  will  permit. 

When  completed,  the  project  will  afford  ample  playing  space  for  all 
outdoor  sports,  making  possible  a  system  of  general  physical  training  for 
all  students,  besides  furnishing  adequate  accommodations  for  inter-col- 
legiate contests. 


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